[Shootout-list] word-frequency

Nicolas Neuss Nicolas.Neuss@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 20:22:20 +0200


Isaac Gouy <igouy2@yahoo.com> writes:

> --- Nicolas Neuss <Nicolas.Neuss@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:
> -snip-
>> Question: wouldn't it be more telling about the power of a language,
>> if the natural ordering (decreasing word frequency, correct
>> alphabetical order) was required? 
>
> Don't expect these tiny programs to tell anyone very much about the
> power of a language.

:-) So let me say "a little more telling".  And the test would look a
little less contrived.

Nicolas.